I am a newbie to linux.., although I am very experianced in windows, I just installed SuSE 9.1 ontop of WinXP..., dualboot,.., and havent too many problems other then the fact that I had to buy an external modem

I am having problems with WINE..., it seems that I cannot run any exe's that have dependencies that don't come with WINE (and are in .so form in /usr/lib/wine)

I get these lines whenever I launch any programs...-
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not accessible

which I am almost certain means that any dependencies that I put into C:\Windows\system are not going to be found...

also, what is with the double slashes?

Thanx in advanced,
Byan

have you tried running "winecfg"? that may do the trick - I had the same errors, but (I think!) resolved them by playing with the values in ~/.wine/config

here's the beginning of mine (running slack10, no m$ install):

Try deleting ~/.wine and then installing Wine from the sources.